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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning are making it possible for learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to better understand these new open education ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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